"scape-bird" meaning in All languages combined

See scape-bird on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: scape-birds [plural]
Etymology: From scape + bird; modelled on scapegoat. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|scape|bird}} scape + bird Head templates: {{en-noun}} scape-bird (plural scape-birds)
  1. A bird that has symbolically had human diseases and sins transferred to it and then is released into the wild to carry away the afflictions.
    Sense id: en-scape-bird-en-noun-IqVNQ~wB Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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        },
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A bird that has symbolically had human diseases and sins transferred to it and then is released into the wild to carry away the afflictions."
      ],
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      "links": [
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        ],
        [
          "symbolically",
          "symbolically"
        ],
        [
          "disease",
          "disease"
        ],
        [
          "sin",
          "sin"
        ],
        [
          "wild",
          "wild"
        ],
        [
          "affliction",
          "affliction"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
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}

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        "Pages with entries"
      ],
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        "A bird that has symbolically had human diseases and sins transferred to it and then is released into the wild to carry away the afflictions."
      ],
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        ],
        [
          "symbolically",
          "symbolically"
        ],
        [
          "disease",
          "disease"
        ],
        [
          "sin",
          "sin"
        ],
        [
          "wild",
          "wild"
        ],
        [
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          "affliction"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
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